I think Mr. Fraser is incorrect in his assessment on the time frame, because it isn't as though they drop it on them one day and the department finds out about the whole project and then two days later is forced to do it. It could take two years to work towards getting an exemption to test on a road.
I don't think we're asking a lot of the department to publish a year's worth of work, two years' worth of work, two days after they decide to grant the exemption. I don't think that's too onerous for the department. They may need three days or four days, but to put “feasible”....
I don't see what we're afraid of here. This isn't a snap decision. These are long term, so why not make the department accountable to do it? If they're good enough to grant the exemption, how can they not be good enough to put on the website to inform people about it?
By the way, if Google or Amazon or Tesla or any of the other companies has one of these vehicles, they're going to test it. They're probably going to do an announcement of the kind they did in the City of Ottawa a couple of weeks ago, so there could be a press announcement, a public announcement, and there's a chance it would not even be on the website.
I don't know why you wouldn't have it on the website. Do your due diligence and be responsible to Canadians.